I want to be emperor

Chapter 89 Ruzhou Chen Zhibang

In Ruzhou City, Chen Zhibang also learned that there was a group of thieves bypassing Ruzhou and going south to Lushan County. After hearing the news, he couldn't help showing a gleam of joy on his face.

After leaving four or five thousand thieves, the pressure that Ruzhou needs to face can be weakened.

In this way, he will have greater confidence in defending Ruzhou.

During this period of time, two main forces of rogues came south from Henan Prefecture, of which more than 1 rogues directly besieged Yiyang, and another force with more than [-] rogues killed the city of Ruzhou.

Facing the attack of the thieves, he, Chen Zhibang, would have been defeated and died if he failed.

Facing the huge pressure from thieves in the past one or two months, Chen Zhibang didn't even care about Huang Guangmao's troops being wiped out by the thieves in Funiu Mountain last year, let alone when tens of thousands of thieves have already arrived at the city of Ruzhou , and then go to care about the life and death of Lushan County.

What's more, he didn't think there would be any big troubles in Lushan County.

In the past six months, he has often heard news about the rogues in Funiu Mountain. According to his understanding, the rogues in Funiu Mountain are a bit difficult to deal with, but there are still only a few hundred people, and it is because of the complicated terrain of Funiu Mountain that they were able to ambush Huang Guangmao by luck. department.

Now they took the initiative to run over from Funiu Mountain, and lost the support of the complex terrain outside, how could they be the opponents of the officers and soldiers.

Even though these rogues from Funiu Mountain have expanded to thousands of people through coercion and other means in the past few months, Chen Zhibang still doesn't think that such rogues will pose any real threat. Just a few hundred people.

When he frees up his hands and casually pulls out a partial division to go south, it is estimated that he will be wiped out by these Funiu Mountain thieves in sevens and eighties.

But now, Chen Zhibang's focus is on Ruzhou. How to defend Ruzhou City under the siege of tens of thousands of thieves is the most important thing.

His main task is to garrison Ruzhou, other places can be lost, but Ruzhou city must not be lost.

Furthermore, Tan Zhengling, governor of Ruzhou in the city, Wen Xiangwen of Zhizhou, and Wang Jida of Tongzhi made it clear that they did not want Chen Zhibang to divide his troops to rescue other cities.

Once the thieves took the opportunity to attack Ruzhou after the division of troops, the military general Chen Zhibang could lead his soldiers to break through and escape. Take the crime and make meritorious deeds.

But the adults in Ruzhou City who were born as Scholars would be in for a bloody misfortune. Even if they were lucky enough not to die in the rebellion, but escaped while taking advantage of the chaos, they would still be arrested and imprisoned.

If you are lucky, you will be dismissed from office and exiled. If you are not lucky, you will be directly asked to kill!
Who made them civil servants have the responsibility of guarding the soil!

In the past few years, many civil servants were killed because of the loss of the city, but not many generals were killed because of defeat.

This is also a very interesting situation in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty in recent years.

Civil servants with high status also died more, while generals with low status died less.

Usually civil servants can crush military generals to death, one slap today, one slap tomorrow...

But, when it comes to critical moments, civilian officials are usually the ones who die.

Whenever a battle was defeated, Chongzhen usually killed civilian officials, but military generals rarely killed...

After all, killing a civil official will not cause the army to mutiny or even raise the flag to rebel. On the contrary, killing a senior civil official can calm the anger of the frontline soldiers.

But the consequences of killing a general will be much more serious, and if it is not done well, it will force the frontline army back.

The rebel army has ravaged several provinces in the past few years, so many senior civil officials have lost their posts, such as the former governor of Yunyang Jiang Yunyi, the governor of five provinces Chen Qiyu, the governor of Shaanxi Lian Guoshi, and the current governor of Henan Xuanmo. Many lands in the east have fallen, and the imperial court is about to arrest Xuanmo...

However, most of the military generals who suppressed thieves in the Central Plains, except for those who died in battle, were all doing well.

Maybe the political status is not high, and you are angry and scolded every day, but generally you don't have to worry about losing your life because you lost a certain city.

Unless the fight with the bandits is too hard, causing the army under his command to be wiped out, so that the court has no scruples to kill...

For example, Zuo Liangyu has been suppressing bandits in the Central Plains in the past few years. In fact, he has not won a few commendable victories. .

He played the trick of raising bandits to respect himself.

But does no one know?Everyone is not stupid, and many people in the court have noticed it, but the Ming court did not punish him, but continued to promote Zuo Liangyu.

Because the big bosses in the court know that Zuo Liangyu is different from the previous Mao Wenlong, and the times are different.

In the past, Mao Wenlong was rather stupid. He obviously had huge contradictions and conflicts with Yuan Chenghuan, and he ran to the camp to see Yuan Chenghuan foolishly, so he was chopped down by Yuan Chenghuan.

The death of Mao Wenlong can be regarded as a major turning point in the Chongzhen Dynasty!

Mao Wenlong's death itself was nothing, but its impact was enormous.

From now on, all the generals of the Ming court are very respectful to the civil servants on the surface, beating and scolding, but behind the scenes, they are all self-respecting for the bandits and self-respecting for the soldiers. If they really pissed them off, they would immediately mutiny .

Some generals who have no shame will even surrender to the Qing Dynasty as traitors, such as Kong Youde.

Specifically speaking about Zuo Liangyu's side, he is not stupid, and he also knows how Mao Wenlong died, so naturally he will not follow in his footsteps.

In the current situation, if Hong Chengchou let Zuo Liangyu go to see him alone, Zuo Liangyu would dare to directly order a mutiny...

He also traps and kills, and thinks that someone left by him is a fool!

Therefore, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty in recent years has been really different from previous years, especially the relationship between civil officials and generals.

Under normal circumstances, civil servants can still suppress generals through various official procedures, such as impeachment on the basis of crimes, control of food and grass, etc., as long as the generals are not forced too hard, such as killing the generals directly, it is basically possible Randomly slap the general's slap photon.

If you do a good job, you can learn from Yuan Chenghuan to trick the general into coming and chop him with a knife.

But if the operation is not good, don't blame other generals for mutiny.

This is the case in Ruzhou City now. Tan Zhengling, Wang Jida, and Wen Xiangwen can undoubtedly suppress Chen Zhibang and let Chen Zhibang defend Ruzhou.

But when the time comes when the army is defeated and the city is broken, Chen Zhibang will be able to withdraw with the army by slapping his ass, while Tan Zhengling and the others will have to be sent to prison and exiled if they don't die.

This point, Tan Zhengling and the others are also very clear, so at this critical moment, apart from threats, they are also tempted by promises, saying that they will ask for credit for Chen Zhibang, raise food and grass for Chen Zhibang, and promise not to throw them over like money.

If this was done a few years ago, Tan Zhengling and the others would have no need to promise Chen Zhibang, they would have to do whatever they asked Chen Zhibang to do, and if they were upset, they would imitate Yuan Chenghuan and cut Chen Zhibang down.

But now, it can't be done, even if Tan Zhengling and the others disdain these generals in their hearts, they still have to give Chen Zhibang some benefits in addition to threats.

As for Chen Zhibang, if possible, he still hopes to keep Ruzhou.

After all, if he gave up Ruzhou, the imperial court might not punish him due to the military power in his hands, but the subsequent imperial court would not let him live a good life, and would definitely try to kill him.

Unless it was absolutely necessary, Chen Zhibang did not want such an extreme situation to occur.

Therefore, if Ruzhou can defend it, it should defend it as much as possible.

But other places except Ruzhou, let him go, even if other places can attract thieves to divide their troops, thereby reducing the pressure on Ruzhou City, it is still a great thing for Chen Zhibang.

"I hope that Lushan County can last longer!" Chen Zhibang looked south, sincerely hoping that Xie Liangcai could hold Lushan County, and then attract more thieves to attack the city, thereby reducing the pressure on Ruzhou City.

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There are about [-] people in the group of Chuang Potian who went south from Ruzhou. After going all the way south, they just entered the border of Lushan County. Their leader, Chuang Potian, discovered that there was actually a rebel army of about [-] people in Lushan County. , After some inquiries, I learned that they were killed from Funiu Mountain, and they were not the troops of the rebels.

These so-called Baoxiangying are purely a group of small local thieves in Funiu Mountain.

For such a small-scale petty thief, Chuang Potian naturally didn't pay much attention to it, and directly sent someone to let Luo Zhixue lead the army to Lushan County to follow his orders. He also heard that Luo Zhixue was only sixteen years old, so he promised After Luo Zhixue made meritorious service, he was adopted as his adopted son.

Naturally, he was talking casually about adopting sons. His real purpose was to take over the 1000-strong rural protection battalion, so that he could serve as cannon fodder when he attacked Lushan County later.

Originally, Chuang Potian thought that after sending envoys there, Luo Zhixue would immediately run over with soldiers and horses. After all, Chuang Potian was considered a big thief, and he called himself one of the 72 Battalions of the Rebel Army.

As for whether it is true or not, there is no need to be serious about this. The rebel armies split and unite, ups and downs, and they do not belong to each other. The Ming army who encircled and suppressed them did not understand how many rebels there are...

Chuang Potian confidently sent envoys there, but several days passed without waiting for Luo Zhixue's arrival, not to mention Luo Zhixue, even the envoys he sent before did not return.

At first, Chuang Potian thought that the envoys he sent were lost on the way or died in the hands of officers and soldiers, so he failed to pass the news.

So he sent people over again, this time not only the envoys with a few entourages, but thousands of troops directly.

After all, although Chuang Potian felt that there was a high possibility of accidents on the way to the dispatched envoys, he did not rule out the possibility that Luo Zhixue's group had hacked him with a knife, so it would be safer to send more people.

In fact, what Chuang Potian thinks is a relatively small possibility is the truth: after the envoys sent by Chuang Potian expressed their intentions in a positive and arrogant manner, they were chopped off on the spot by the blind Wang next to him.

"The mere bandit also wants to be the foster father of the great general, it's so boring!"

(End of this chapter)